What: Media availability to discuss U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana decision, case No. 1:08-cv-01317-TWP-MJD

When: 2:30 p.m. TODAY, Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Why: The U.S. District Court ruled that "The treatment of mentally ill prisoners housed in [Indiana Department of Correction] IDOC segregation units and the New Castle Psychiatric Unit, and the failure to provide adequate treatment for such prisoners, violates the Eighth Amendment's proscription against the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment."

The relief to which the Plaintiffs are entitled is the delivery of mental health care which is within the bounds of the Eighth Amendment. The remedy may be as complex as the evidence of the violation, and Plata is again instructive, just as it was in addressing the merits of the Eighth Amendment claim.